Hey! Matilda, Matilda, Matilda,
she take me money and run Venezuela.
When Ruthie says come see her
In her honky-tonk lagoon
Where I can watch her waltz for free
'Neath her Panamanian moon
I’m hiding in Honduras
I’m a desperate man
She lies and says she’s in love with him, can’t find a better man…
She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can’t find a better man…
When I say I love you you say you better
Ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream,
The notes were turning blue when I fell into a dream
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town.
Oh Ruby
Don’t take your love to town
But he knows where she’s goin’ as she’s leavin’
She is headed for the cheatin’ side of town
Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
I’m gonna tell you what the mean old train will do
take your woman away
and shoot black smoke back at you
Here I am again in this mean old town
And you’re so far away from me
And where are you when the sun goes down
You’re so far away from me
Eighteen wheels and a dozen roses
Ten more miles on his four day run
There’s a truck out on a four-way a mile or more away,
The whining of his wheels just makes it colder.
I’m a truck drivin’ vampire, I only drive by night,
I’m a truck drivin’ vampire, undead but not uptight.
It seemed so innocent when Bossy bit my hand
I was just tryin’ to milk her, but I didn’t understand
That Bossy really was Pierre the handyman
He was a werecow
Moo moo moo, he was a werecow
Bloodsuckers - how can they sleep at night
Bloodsuckers - nothing but parasites
Ah how do you sleep at night?
Nighttime on the City of New Orleans
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home and we’ll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness rollin’ down to the sea
It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home
Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin’